They said he left Brussels-Midi on the TGV,
ticket in hand, panic in his eyes.
Destination: Paris.
Mission: unknown.😂

Witnesses swear he shouted,
“Madame Pompi wants to scalp me!”
before leaping heroically into the Seine —
a man at war with his own reflection.🤣

The newspapers called it madness.
The poets called it divine confusion.
But perhaps Pete the Panicker simply dove
where others only pretend to swim —
into truth,
into fear,
into that chaotic thing called being human.

And while the world laughed,
somewhere in the current
a single voice whispered,
“I am free.”🤣

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